Draimon: Fracture: Erasend- Book 1: Deascension

Chapter 17: Revitalise

Baragon and I had only been walking for a few moments until he stopped, "you must sleep," he said, turning his head to me.

"Very well, will you sleep?"

"I shall," he replied. "I will awaken when the battle soon begins," I laid my body down, rested my head in my arms, and everything faded to black.

After what felt like mere moments, Baragon nudged my face with his arm.

"It is time," he said quietly; as I stood my body felt larger, stronger, with my teeth and claws replaced with bark. Only parts of my skin were covered since only a small amount of power was devoted to bark magic.

"You are ready," he said again proudly; he turned, "now get on my back," he said as spikes on his back grew out with a space for my body, and I hopped on. "Uhh, you are heavy too."

"Hey," I yelled back, and Baragon bounded away towards the wall, his great arms providing much of the speed.

"Do you feel that you are ready?" he said sternly.

"I have to be," I said back.

"Just be careful. I believe that it is an older one, and the plant Elemontols are some of the strongest."

"Duly noted," I replied, ready for my revenge. The least I could do is destroy it, to make sure that their souls are put to rest and that It does not kill again. If I die, Baragon will want to avenge me, but I will be the avenger, not the avenged. I rested my face into Baragon's skin, no longer bothered by the roughness as I was when I was little.

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We reached the wall, standing tall and open. I got off Baragon's back, and he bounded away, but not before saying.

"Good luck," and he charged into battle, grasping and slamming an Elemontol into the ground. Come on, Drydra, you can do this, as I flew up, dodging solar beams. Below was chaos though it was beautiful in its colours. Where is it? I needed to find the one with the scar. As I flew, I saw a vine tendril burst out of the violence.

I tried dodging backwards in the air, but the tendril reacted instantly. I ducked up, down, but still, the green tentacle followed close. I fired a ball of solar energy at it, and it hit, exploding on contact.

Moments later, it came again and curled around my body before pulling me down to the ground. I slammed into the earth, dazed, still wrapped in the tendril. Looking up, I saw it. The scared Elemontol. From Its "hand," I saw the tendril that bound me.

"There you are!" I roared with intent to kill. It held the other orb sting of an arm down, and tendrils of the arm curled up, and then around it, they curled and twisted and then flattened. The Elemontol held the tendrils up, but they were not tendrils anymore. They had shifted and compacted into a long broad blade.

It flicked. Its tendril back, pulling me through the air and towards the outstretched blade. I landed right into the sword, and It pierced my chest, the pain searing, and I spat green blood all other It's sacred orb of a "head."

The blank eyes seemed to narrow, and I was gripped by the freehand, and the blade was pulled down, leaving a deep wound across my body. I screamed in agony. It sliced into me again and again, each just as painful as the last until my form was nothing more than ribbons of green flesh dripping blood.

My breathing became heavy, each breath an effort, I was hurled away, slamming into the ground. My body was in absolute agony. I can not die here. I will not. I faintly saw thick tendrils emerge from the field, and they curled together above me, blocking out the light and trapping me inside. Light shone from flowers on the vines, and I saw It slowly coming closer towards me, ready to finish me.

Placing my hand on the ground, "help me, please anyone. I can not die yet," and I fell again, still looking at the Elemontol walking towards me. But something happened to the ground. Tendrils burst from below but did not go for the Elemontol. They formed together until a figure with two legs and arms with long claws and a head with long teeth came from the tendrils. The Creature shrieked and instantly went for the Elemontols, swiping the orbs that made up Its body with its claws. Thank you, I thought.

My body hurt all over, but my core was somehow intact? I started taking deep breaths in and out again and again, and I felt my body heal itself until I could stand up though I was tired. I must have used Elemental Energy to treat my serious wounds.

I breathed again and felt my strength gradually return. The Creature I created was still fighting the Elemontol though it had lost an arm in the battle, and its body was covered in deep wounds; no blood was showing through. I readied myself, unfolding my wings into tendrils, and ran up to the Elemontol. The Creature was sandwiched between the Elemontol and me. As I ran, I thought, duck, and it obeyed, letting me leap over it.

I fired a solar blast at the Elemontol, the hit staggering it. I grabbed the "head" and slammed it to the ground. But just like my first battle, I was thrown off by a "foot," but this time landed safely on the ground. We circled, and my plant minion went for the Elemontol again, screaming wildly but was cut in two with a single stroke. We circled again, both knowing that one of us would get out of this dome alive.

Using Its free "hand," the Elemontol fired solar bolts, and I blocked them by raising a bark pillar. It shattered, and I sent the shards forwards. Its attention was forced on the shards, and as they were deflected, on the tips of my tendrills, I formed bark blades and whipped them at It from a distance. The lashes were knocked away, but I sent my remaining shards to skewer the arm orbs, the withering as they plunged into the ground.

The Elemontol showed no pain or rage as vines sprouted from the centre orb and then formed new spheres for a new "arm." The centre must be how I kill it, I thought; my tendrils lashed forwards aiming for that point. Though the new arm grabbed hold of them and whipped them backwards, sending me flying towards the Elemontol once again, using my tendrils was foolish.

I was close to the Monster, and on the ground, it swung with the blade serving my wing-tendrills, then brought the blade down, but I rolled to the side. I stood on my hind legs and formed a sword of my own, made of bark much like Its own in my hand, I stuck with power, but the Elemontol stopped every strike I made. I had to do something as my Elemental Energy and wings recovered. However, I could not keep this up for much longer; the Elemontol was just too skilled.

As we were parring and blocking each other, I saw the freehand twist, and I dodged to the side as a tendrill from the free "hand" sprung out. But rather than evade, I grabbed the tendrill, spun the Elemontol around and hurled its body. The Elemontol flew through the air, and I got an idea.

I felt my energy recover and rose a bark wall at the end of the Elemontol's flight path. It hit the wall hard, slamming into it, I willed the wall to come to me, and it did with the Elemontol trapped on the wall. I sprouted a second wall just in front of me, and the Elemontol was crushed between the walls.

It tried to fight back, tried to escape, but I seeled the walls together, trapping the Elemontol. I was going to crush the one who took my mother. I placed the walled prison down on the ground and forced them together. It was not enough, so I curled my vines around the prison to constrict it. I felt the bark move bit by bit. What was the Elemontol made of? I kept focusing until my core ached. All of a sudden, a solar beam came from above and destroyed much of the prison.

"NO," I screamed, and the Elemontol tore its "hand" free, followed by the rest of its body. I tried to attack with bark shards, but they all crumbled by lasers. Looking up, I saw the source. It was the flowers. They were not just to provide light but also to build up power and fire lasers.

I did not even know if the Elemontols needed to see like me. The Elemontols so-called "body" looked a little different now. Its orbs no longer looked like balls of green. They were slightly flattened with noticeable cracks along the surface. At least the crush cage somewhat worked.

The face of the Elemontol also looked different. Its cold dead eyes seemed to narrow, and its body shock. Like it was showing another emotion apart from a mindless killer. Strange nubs grew on the Elemontol's shoulder orbs, and a tendrill came from each, their tips sparking with energy. The ceiling of our cage lit up as yellow beams came down from above, and I quickly started moving again, narrowly dodging them.

The beams did not seem to focus on me, as beams were striking spots, I was not near. They were firing at random, and as I stared at the Elemontol, I saw one of the new tendrills spark with yellow and fire a solar beam at me. I quickly ducked down, and it sailed above me, just missing. Another came down and struck my back, the wound was painful any stronger, and there would be a hole through me. I had no time to feel pain. I had to keep moving, so I took flight; I was faster like this.

I dodged every beam that was fired towards me, each one barely brushing my skin. For some, I was not quick enough, and they grazed my skin, the pain burning. The Elemontol must be using a lot of Elemental Energy or whatever they use, firing all those solar lasers.

My plan was to dodge as many as possible and wait for the thing's energy to run out. The Elemontol seemed to react to my thoughts as all the flowers fired their beams at me, combing into a massive blast. I swooped down, narrowly avoiding the attack and flew towards the Elemontol, who fired its own at me.

So I did the same, my breath, holding the beams back just long enough to fly to the side. The lasers seemed to come faster and faster, and one even severed my tail with it falling to the ground below. Just a little longer, I thought to myself.

The lasers had stopped, and I saw the Elemontol hunched over, now was my chance. I soared down, and in mid-air, I morphed my wings into tendrills, which I charged with elemental energy. As I landed, I smashed all of them upon it then rapidly struck. They were not only stronger but faster as well. My slashes became a blur of green and yellow with the Elemontol on the ground, the entire unable to move.

"HOW DOES THAT FEEL, YOU MONSTER!" I screamed as I kept going, kept whipping until my tendrils ached. I rose them up for a moment, letting the Elemontol get up and dash towards me. I curled them together into one massive tendrill then slammed it down on the Elemontol. "How about that," I snarled, thrashing down over and over, then lifting and hurling it against the wall. It slammed into the wall, its "body" shuddering due to the force and falling to the ground.

I was tired, but I still had some energy left, though I felt my body slow in this prison. I felt that my solar beams were weaker in this fake light, so I grasped the ground and sent Elemental Energy to the vines blocking out the light.

They responded, and I commanded them to thrash down on their creator, delivering rapid smashes until I used them to trap the Elemontol.

My wings had recovered from my attacks, and I felt the pure light on my back. I formed flowers like the ones the Elemontol had made along them, and I felt my wings absorb the light.

Solar energy gathered in my mouth much stronger than before. I did what Baragon taught me, splitting my first in two and then firing a straight one. All the bolts hit the Elemontol, but It was coming for me. I ran at it, unleashing blast after blast. The Elemontol grasped the ground with both "hands," and the field rose and erupted as vines burst from the ground. I released the energy in the flowers and flew up, dodging the vines, but they rose up, reaching out for me. I quickly disintegrated them with my breath; more tendrils sprouted around me.

I had to finish this now. I could not live with myself if I had to wait a hundred years for my next chance. I released the energy in the flowers and boosted towards the Elemontol as the tendrils came crashing down. I broke through them and grabbed the Elemontol by the centre this time. I scrapped it against the arena, then out into the battlefield forming bark spikes along the way, wearing the middle down bit by bit.

I formed a taller bark spike and slammed the Elemontol into it. Flying straight up, I felt the energy of the flowers fading, so I soared down, still clenching the Elemontol by Its centre. It could not fight back.

"THIS IS FOR MY MOTHER. THIS IS FOR THE FAMILY YOU RUINED!"I slammed the centre on the spike, impaling it and then unleashed the remainder of the solar energy from my mouth until there was nothing left of the Elemontol. I fell to the ground, exhausted but relieved. I have done it, I sighed, and the other Elemontols on the field vanished in a flash of green light.

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Bioro pulled his claws out of a bark Dragon, its brown blood dripping. Biora had crushed another Dragon with vines.

"I no longer sense our guardian Bioro," Bioro looked at Biora as they were teleported back.

"We will have our revenge. Come. We will grow in power. Then in the next battle. We will face the killer two on one. End the cycle."

"Or keep it going another round," Biora said. Bioro stared at Biora.

"We will end that Dragon. And everyone they loved. It is only fair."

"This is not fair," Biora said Bioro took a ready stance.

"Come at me. Shape your body. To look like them."

"As you say so," and Biora connected vines to his orbs then stood on all fours with vines coming from the back. More spiralled into a head, and Biora in fake Dragon form lunged at Bioro.